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Full name | Anton James Flavel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Narrogin, Western Australia | 3 May 1969||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anton James Flavel, OAM [1] (born 3 May 1969) [2] is an Australian athlete with an intellectual disability. He was born in the Western Australian town of Narrogin. [2] In his disability class he held a world record for the javelin and an Australian record in the shot put and high jump. [3]
Competing at the 1st World Games for Athletes with an Intellectual Disability in Härnösand, Sweden, he won two gold medals in the Men's Javelin and the Men's Discus, and a bronze medal in the Men's Long Jump. [4] At the 1992 Paralympic Games for Persons with mental handicap in Madrid, Spain, which were held immediately after the 1992 Barcelona Paralympics, [5] he won a gold medal in the men's javelin, [3] for which he received a Medal of the Order of Australia. [1] He also won bronze medals in the Men's High Jump and Men's Discus. [6] He was coached in Perth, Western Australia by Hilda Collier. [6]
At the IPC Athletics World Championships in the Men's Shot Put F20 , he won a gold medal in 1994 and a bronze medal in 1998. [7] [8] At the 2000 Sydney Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's Javelin F20 event, [9] and came ninth in the Men's Shot Put F20 event. [10]
In 1997, he became the first intellectually disabled athlete to receive a residential scholarship from the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and was coached by Chris Nunn. [3] The move to the AIS highlighted the more professional approach to training. In Perth, he was doing three sessions per week and at the AIS he was doing thirteen sessions. [3] He left the AIS after the 2000 Sydney Games. [11]
In 2000, he received an Australian Sports Medal. [12]
He married Trish Flavel, who won a bronze medal in the Women's 800m T20 at the 2000 Sydney Games. [ citation needed ]
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